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The serviceman from the 2nd Battalion The Rifles was wounded while on duty in the Al Ashar district of Basra city on Monday afternoon.

He was taken to the multinational Basra Palace base for treatment, then flown by helicopter to a field hospital at Basra Air Station, but died from his injuries.

Major David Gell, British military spokesman in Basra, said a second soldier was wounded in the same incident but was not seriously ill and is expected to make a full recovery.

It is the second death of a British serviceman in southern Iraq in as many days.

Kingsman Danny Wilson, 28, from Chindit Company, 2nd Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, who was killed on Sunday, had already served in the country and volunteered to go back.

The soldier - the first to die in Iraq for four weeks - was wounded by small arms fire while outside his Warrior vehicle.

The father-of-one, who leaves wife Tracey and son Leo, had been earmarked as a future officer because of his experience, the MoD said.

Monday's death takes the number of UK service personnel who have died since the start of hostilities in Iraq to 136, of which 105 were deaths in action.